sajolida wrote (05 Mar 2015 17:03:04 GMT) :
> I hereby propose to have the list of circuits accessible directly from
> the green onion as it is the case now in Vidalia. But I'm not sure how
> this fits with your architectural plans and related
> security implications.
It should be no problem: assuming the green onion thingie is a GNOME
Shell extension (this seems to be the only reasonable way to do it
IMO), then it'll run as the `amnesia' users, who should be able to
start Tor Monitor anyway.
> Alan, I'm not sure what are the implications of the deprecation of
> System Tray Icons as I couldn't find anything about that in the GNOME
> HIG.
The HIG apparently doesn't capture everything that the code does.
Let me provide some background. In previous versions of GNOME, there
were two different things:
* proper panel applets (e.g. NM's one)
* icons in the notification area (that very often were things that
should really be applets, but their authors were lazy and they
hijacked the notification area -- that's what we did for our own
OpenPGP applet, oops)
While with GNOME Shell:
* the notification area isn't displayed by default anymore;
* a third-party extension (topIcons) can be used to restore the old
notification area icons placement; no idea how long this hack will
work;
* what used to be "proper panel applets" can now be implemented as
GNOME Shell extensions.
> But in Tails Jessie we still have various custom widgets in the top
> bar that expend to more features when you act on them: the Florence
> keyboard and the OpenPGP Applet. So I guess this is still acceptable...
That's a temporary hack, made possible only via a third-party GNOME
Shell extension, and I'd like to get rid of as soon as possible
(
https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/8309). Adding more stuff there
would add to the list of things that we'll have to
rewrite/replace later.
Cheers,
--
intrigeri
